Campus & Community

The NationalVarietal Release and Registration Committee (NVRRC) of the Ministry of Agriculture has recommended five proposed varieties of cassava developed by the Department of Crop Science in collaboration with the Biotechnology and Nuclear Agricultural Research Institute (BNARI) of Ghana Atomic Energy Commission(GAEC).

The five recommended varieties are resistant to mosaic disease which mostly affects cassava production in Ghana and also contain beta carotine - a precursor of Vitamin A.

The recommendation was made after members of the committee inspected the five proposed cassava varieties at the University Teaching and Research Farm.

The School of Agriculture, has organised a five-day training in "Principles and Practice of Land Surveying" for practitioners and professionals in Land Surveying and Town and Country Planning Department.

Past students of the School of Agriculture, affectionately called AGRICOLAE, have held a three-day homecoming to map out strategies to make their association vibrant.

The homecoming was also aimed at mobilising alumni to support the development of the School of Agriculture.

The event, themed: “Repositioning School of Agriculture as a Centre of Excellence for Education: Agricolae, served as a networking and socialisation platform which afforded members to relive memories of their school days.

Delivering the keynote address, a former Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan, called for more engagements between the School and past students. A move, he said, would enable the School get support from past students to advance the vision of the School.

The School of Agriculture has launched its alumni association at a ceremony on campus with a call on past students to help reposition the School as a “Centre of Excellence”.

Launching the alumni association known as “Agricolae”, the Provost of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Prof. L. K. Sam-Amoah, made a clarion call on past students to contribute towards the development of the School. He said the formation of Agricolae was long overdue, and therefore, all alumni must come on board to achieve the mandate of the School.